A famous scene from one of the first notable horror films, Nosferatu. The Horror Genre:
Horror films are unsettling movies that intentionally try to instil the emotions of fear, disgust and horrorstartle the viewer through the means of gruesome and the supernatural imagery that is shown on screen. Horror movies frequently overlap with the fantasy and science fiction genres. They also frequently overlap with the thriller genre from viewers.
Horror movies often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of gruesome and supernatural things
Horror films tend to work on real things that affect the viewer. For example, the viewer's nightmares, hidden worst fears, disgust and terror of the unknown. A great deal of most horror movies are about the supernatural. Some films contain a storyline about sinister, serial killers, or a disease/virus outbreak and surrealism. Most of these can be branded horror, depending how the movie is made.
Plots written within the horror genre often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, commonly of supernatural origin, into the everyday world. Themes or elements that are often common in typical horror films include ghosts, torture, gore, werewolves, ancient curses, Satanism, demons, vicious animals, vampires, cannibals, haunted houses, zombies and masked serial killers. Conversely, stories of the supernatural are not necessarily always a horror movie as well.
What is considered to be a horror film has varied from decade to decade. In recent years, the term "horror" is applied to films which display more explicit gore, jump scenes/scares or supernatural content
Early horror movies are largely based on classic literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. More recent horror films continue to exploit the monsters of literature.
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